173 Ga. App. 720 - Foster v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2021
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Culberson v. Alabama Construction Co. · GAF CORPORATION v. Tolar Construction Co. · Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Wall · Ætna Life Insurance v. Padgett · 129 Ga. App. 576 - MODERN MAID HOMES, INC. v. Parnell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such circumstances, the jury was authorized to find, as they did, that the right to indemnification had not been lost.” Id.) 22 . It has become quite routine for insurance companies who dispute coverage of an insured who has been sued, which insured seeks a defense and coverage by the insurance company, to pursue a declaratory judgment regarding its obligations prior to the trial of the underlying litigation. 23 . The Court is only given hints as to the theory of liability in the underlying case. For example, plaintiff states,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'The cardinal rule of construction, to which all others are subordinate, is to ascertain the intention of the parties, and in order to do this the language of the agreement should be considered in the light of the attendant and surrounding circumstances.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had a defense available which would have defeated the action but failed to assert it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.